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[NT] Was Carl Jung an NT?

BlackCat

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Didn't Yung type himself as an INTJ? Or INTP? I can't remember which.

EDIT: I'm leaning toward INTJ though, but don't take my word for it.
 

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Jung was an INFP space cadet.

Read about his theories on "collective unconscious".
 

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Jung was an INFP space cadet.

Read about his theories on "collective unconscious".

I am quite familiar with them.

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Didn't Yung type himself as an INTJ? Or INTP? I can't remember which.

EDIT: I'm leaning toward INTJ though, but don't take my word for it.

I think I found my answer, and I think he's an INTJ (most of the time, as he mentions type is not static, it's dynamic)

However he does state 4 things that he says is sufficient to type him.

1. Hardcore thinker
2. Very intuitive
3. Trouble with feelings
4. Trouble with reality

The first 3 tell me he was an NT, the 4th however is what really convinces me he's an intj.

YouTube - Face to face with Carl Jung - Part 3 of 4

It's all at the end of this clip.
 

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I wonder what he meant by, the psyche not adhering to the laws of time and space.

Space and Time are concepts that our bodies are bound by. Our minds have no such barrier. Whatever we can imagine is possible.
 

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Space and Time are concepts that our bodies are bound by. Our minds have no such barrier. Whatever we can imagine is possible.

Sorry but I was going to reply before the radical implications of such a claim started to really sink in. I mean basically, he is saying our consciousness is not something physical? and if it's not physical, then we don't know if we really stop existing if our physical body decays or dies.
 

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Sounds like something he'd believe in if he believed in collective consciousness.
 

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Sounds like something he'd believe in if he believed in collective consciousness.

I think you mean the collective UNconscious. But that still doesn't explain WHERE the psyche resides, in fact it just made it more confusing. Oh well, these mysteries are what make life worth living.
 

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I'm gonna agree with Keirsey on this one and say INFJ.
 

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I think you mean the collective UNconscious. But that still doesn't explain WHERE the psyche resides, in fact it just made it more confusing. Oh well, these mysteries are what make life worth living.

Whoops! My bad.
I've been digging around but haven't had much luck finding his exact position on the mind body problem. However according to this source material and interpretation of his words, Carl Jung did not neccessary believe that the psyche is connected to the brain. A friend commented on the fact that Jung was at a point where occultism had a huge influence. It'd make sense that he would believe this to be partially true if he believed in God, as pure reductionists believe that the consciousness and unconsciousness is only a product of chemicals moving in random orders to put it bluntly.

Hm. It appears that I misunderstood collective unconsciousness, it's basically evolutionary psychology buried deep within individuals, and the whole ideas of archetypes come from there. But still Jung himself was a believer in the paranormal.
 

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Please Understand Me (I and II) both say Jung was an INTP. It makes sense too, the man was a genius.

And the books don't lie, my friends. They are the Holy Bible of MBTI.
 

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You can practically see INTP written across his Frontalis Muscles.
 
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